A private, non-profit, scientific, medical-care and promotional association, legally constituted in Lima in 1983, thanks to the initiative of an oncology patient from abroad, cured locally with Peruvian medicinal plants of traditional use, recommended by Edmund Szeliga.
For more than three decades, IPIFA has been applying the teachings and basic therapeutic method of this Polish Salesian priest, a pioneer of Peruvian phytotherapy and founder of IPIFA.